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The ratings and reviews of this flick are a joke!!! I rated it a (9)chiefly because of Williams. His performance was brilliant. Maybe be it was because of Capras's direction. It makes me think the reviewer didn't really look at the film. Criticism of the camera work was likely the same. The shot of Harlow coming at a continuously retreating camera, room by room, was bold. And she never looked back. Never saw that before this. Harlow looked terrific, and she was great. This made her then. She was truly beautiful. I'd love to see that nude portrait of hers. How come it's never been found?? I know it's been looked for. A truly lost gem. This review was posted first to Devotion by mistake.

Saw this last month at the UCLA film Library along with 3 others. It shows Dorothy in a comic plot which is very different her usual milieu. She pulls it of with the aid of very amusing story. James Finlayson with his movie affectation, his bushy handlebar mustache, was a scream. The scrambling around in and around the ladies bath, by Dorothy, Jimmy and her mother was very inventive. I gave this an 8. Why this library does not release this and their other Mackaill flicks to TCM is very annoying. There has to be many that UCLA has that, some in nitrate form which can be very delightful to the army of Mackaill fans nationwide.

Very inventive for its time,not the usual unfunny Chaplin stuff, and way better than the Arbuckle boring attempts at humor.

I was pleased that TCM had this on the other morning. Bernice Claire and Lawrence Gray sang beautifully. The old man got off a few great one liners, but the singers and especially the lyrics stole the show. Such beautiful sentiments. This show had the feel and atmosphere of one of my favorite movies, "Sally", so I looked it up in my 4/03 Now Playing and "Sally" was directed by John Fracis Dillon too. If they show this again, and they inevitably probably will, I will tape it to keep. Dillon was a master at these early 30s musicals. I've kept "Sally". TCM is to be thanked for putting this on. It is much appreciated. I never miss any pre-7/34 precode movies they show and they are the main reason that TCM is the greatest station showing.